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Prepping some more stuff:







Somehow, I always get back to the fun sized guys ^^

Hey bud

I literally made a profile to just reply to you in regards to your awesome Epic 40k prints.
I've ordered a Anycubic photon myself which has arrived, resin due tomorrow.
Are your recent 6mm iron warrior Infantry printed using this said printer?
If so sir, show me the way! If you could help give tips? Lol

I tried getting into Epic40k back in the early 2000's but it was discontinued.
Decided to focus on 28mm 40k when Epic Armageddon came out, this then went out of continuity.

Now with my huge interest wanting to get into 3D printing and sculpting these little guys have inspired me to get a Imperial fist force of my own.

Albertorius, you are entirely too productive with your 3d printing and therefore a jerk. Nice models yet again!

Kennypowers wrote:
Hey bud

I literally made a profile to just reply to you in regards to your awesome Epic 40k prints.
I've ordered a Anycubic photon myself which has arrived, resin due tomorrow.
Are your recent 6mm iron warrior Infantry printed using this said printer?
If so sir, show me the way! If you could help give tips? Lol

I tried getting into Epic40k back in the early 2000's but it was discontinued.
Decided to focus on 28mm 40k when Epic Armageddon came out, this then went out of continuity.

Now with my huge interest wanting to get into 3D printing and sculpting these little guys have inspired me to get a Imperial fist force of my own.

Well, that is a ringing endorsement, thanks! ^_^

Yes, all the Epic infantry shown here has been done with either an Anycubic Photon or an Elegoo Mars. Currently I'm printing them at 0.02mm per layer with AA at 2. The layer time will depend on your printer and your resin brand (do some tests to find the sweet spot beforehand). As a general rule, do NOT try to print 28mm stuff downscaled, as the detail is not right and you'll end up with stuff way too fiddly and fragile to be of any use. If you to want to downscale stuff and print it at 6mm, you'll be needing to mod the files to thicken the delicate parts, deepen the details and do away with the fiddlest ones.

Also, Imperial Fists, eh? These are not mine, but I've seen it done


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 warboss wrote:
Albertorius, you are entirely too productive with your 3d printing and therefore a jerk. Nice models yet again!

Thanks . I do aim to please XD

@Albertorius
Ah nice, I am completely new and wanting to learn from those who know best. So thanks! I have the Anycubic Photon too, so any help/tips would be awesome.
I am going to try doing 6mm Epic minis first as that's one of my initial reasons to get this printer.

Thanks again.

I have a truckload of tiny marines printed and ready to go... other place (where the printer also is, btw, I'm just going through the printed stuff that I have here >_&gt, but I've finished all the tiny marines that I currently have access to:

Batch painting FTW! Managed to paint this in a single afternoon at a decent enough level



Astartes Legion Land Speeder Detachment Special Rule: Must make "whoosh" sounds when moving this detachment.

Nice! Will you be using them this weekend for a game hence the rush?

 warboss wrote:
Nice! Will you be using them this weekend for a game hence the rush?

Nah, we're confined again, so that's not going to happen for a long while. It's just that here's a certain backlog at the painting table ^^

So I've been confined to my parents' home for a while now, waiting for my mother to get her surgery appointment (as I'm the only family member that's not currently inmunodepressed I need to avoid contact with... basically everyone so that I can accompany her to the hospital... plus, as they are immunodepressed they have difficulties to go out and be with people, so they're lonely. Now I am too >_> ).

I'm getting a bit stir crazy cooped up here, as I'm used to be at my home, with my stuff and my printers, but at least I have been able to work from here and to paint when I'm not doing that.

Anyways, yesterday I braved the lock down the region is in to go home for a couple hours and get the Epic printed stuff that I had there:









These will last a while ^^

One billion points of Marines!

I will have, like, ALL the points

That is a good haul of amazing looking models. I really hope the justified satisfaction of getting paint in that will help you get through the rest of the year. Good luck sir!

Now that's a painting backlog! Is it possible to thin the thickness of the boarding marine shields? Even at epic scale, they're a bit chunky.

 warboss wrote:
Now that's a painting backlog! Is it possible to thin the thickness of the boarding marine shields? Even at epic scale, they're a bit chunky.

Not easily, no, they are sculpted that way. OTOH, the end result are really sturdy miniatures, so... ^^

Quick one today: some time ago I printed some Epic "space aelfs" out from thingiverse, as the designer wanted people to test them. They came out great, and afterwards he made a full posed set and thickened some parts. This is the end result:



And this is after a paint schemes test

Adorable lil' space elves Great work at the teensy scale.

Awww so cute in all their tiny fury

Painted this big boi last weekend:



Size wise it's, well... scaled with all the latest stuff ^^



So yeah, big boi

I've been painting it on and off for a couple days (color separation on a hunk of metal is kinda hard, who would haven known ^x^)







Pretty impressive kit, all in all, but the panelling is a bit on the shallow side, a bit of sharpening in that point would go a long way.

Still, it does look impressive:

Looks good! Are the yellow and black hazard stripes customary on HH IW vehicles or is that more of a post-Heresy thing?

 warboss wrote:
Looks good! Are the yellow and black hazard stripes customary on HH IW vehicles or is that more of a post-Heresy thing?

It really depends (this one has none, as you can see); It's usually a good way of breaking the "all metal, all the time" pattern ^^.

That said, yes, it is exacerbated post-heresy, IMHO.

In this case, I opted for a very demuded "Iron Within, Iron Without" on the black of the secondary winglets.

It looks good regardless. About the only thing I may suggest to break up the metallics as you mentioned would be to use some appropriate decals like roman numerals or other miltary symbols on the wings or other large, flat surfaces.

Two Predator squadrons added to my loyalists

Nice tanks, and great to see you chugging your way through these IWs (even if, as a die-hard son of Dorn, I should want to smash them with my fists)

Thanks for sharing

Today just a small test, for now:

Those are good! How's the STL support for Epic Orks in general?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Those are good! How's the STL support for Epic Orks in general?

Well, not that great xD. There's some stuff (and I've printed some ) but usually are either very simplistic or not really for the scale.

These, for example, are from Thingiverse's user jazzmantis (and he has a lot of ork infantry), but they are designed for about 10-12mm, and the files are huge, with millions of faces, so I've had to:

- Scale at about 65% (I might have to thicken some stuff too, we'll see)
- Decimate the files to about 30k faces per model
- Add a more correctly scaled circular base, so that they fit better on the actual bases
- Supports! That's the hard one ^^

This is what I have so far:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4678305

I'll be adding more and doing the rest of jazzmantis' models.

Gosh, sounds emotional (to a complete novice). But totally worth it for tiny orkses

Thanks for sharing

 IGtR= wrote:
Gosh, sounds emotional (to a complete novice). But totally worth it for tiny orkses

Thanks for sharing

In the appropiate parlance "decimating" a model means reducing poligon count ^^.

You have to admit that it sounds pretty dramatic even if you're not just removing every 10th triangle.